A Munich court has dealt a significant legal setback to Suno, ruling on Friday that the AI music company violated German copyright law by training its model on songs without securing licenses from the rights holders. The decision, issued by the Munich Regional Court, hands a major victory to GEMA,... Read More » Twitch Streamer Sues Amazon Over AI Training, Claims Creator Content Used Without Consent A Twitch streamer has sued Twitch and Amazon in a proposed class action, claiming the companies used creators’ videos, chats and other content to train generative artificial intelligence models without their consent or compensation. Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut creator who has streamed on Twitch for nearly a decade, filed the lawsuit Aug. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He claims Twitch gave Amazon access to creator content for AI training even though the platform’s agreements with users did not authorize that use. The lawsuit followed an Aug. 12 announcement from Twitch introducing a setting that allows creators to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The setting is enabled by default, requiring creators to turn it off if they do not want their content used for future AI training. Pandiscia argues the alleged use began before Twitch disclosed the new setting. His complaint claims the companies had already used creator material for AI work without first obtaining permission and benefited from content produced by streamers at their own expense. Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton acknowledged in 2024 that Amazon was using Twitch content in some AI work, which he described at the time as prototyping rather than production use. During an Aug. 12 Twitch discussion, Minton said he did not know what Amazon had previously used for model training. Pandiscia